Xu Xin is ready to benefit the team.
The increase he had today was an increase in his mental strength. He could take this opportunity to carve more works of art.
Just do it.
Walking into the art room, he sat down at the engraving and painting workbench.
It seems like I haven’t created art in a while.
"嘤!" Coco ran in from outside, jumped onto his legs and lay down.
It didn't stay with Xu Xin all day yesterday, and didn't sleep in the same room with him last night.
The little guy can't accept it, and now wants to stick to Xu Xin all the time.
Xu Xin patted its little head: "It's OK here, but you are not allowed to disturb me while I'm working, understand?"
"Bing!"
Xu Xin took out a green-level crystal.
Warm up first.
He has a lot of this stuff now. In addition to the pile he got during the last rainy season, he also got a lot at the bottom of the lake in the cave.
Picking up the carving knife, he began to carve on it.
Soon, he entered a state of ecstasy in carving, and his hand holding the carving knife began to move rapidly.
Three minutes later, Xu Xin looked at the completed small statue, then looked at the time on his watch and opened his eyes wide.
… so fast!
It only takes three minutes to carve out a green level one!
Wouldn’t it be possible to produce 20 pieces directly in one hour
A person can possess a maximum of 10 green-level statues, and he can satisfy the upper limit of two people's demand for green-level crystals in one hour!
Moreover, his energy was not consumed at all!
very nice!
Then let’s carve green-level crystal first.
His own decoration level is sufficient for now. Whether it is the alchemy room or the production room, the success rate is already very high at this stage, and the engraving and painting speed in the art room is also very fast.
Today, let’s upgrade the decoration level of other explorers.
Especially Li Wenxi and Qi Xuefei, their functional areas are related to their abilities. Improving their decoration level will bring the highest benefits to the team.
Xu Xin calmed down and kept carving with the carving knife. One by one, small green-level carvings were constantly born in his hands.
When he was carving the eighteenth small statue, his watch vibrated. It was a voice message from Ji Chaoyang.
"It's ten o'clock. Wang Lei has already said in the group that he has triggered the event. Lou Feier should have gone up as well, right?" Ji Chaoyang asked.
Xu Xin stopped the carving knife in his hand and touched Coco, who had been very well-behaved in his arms: "Well, she left an hour ago, saying that she was going to check on the situation."
"Then let's go to the top of the snowy peak and take a look. We also need to verify the matter of the stone man you mentioned yesterday."
"Okay. You probably haven't seen the statue in the daytime, right?"
"I went up to check it out at around seven o'clock today. Maybe because it was still dark, the appearance of the statues hadn't changed, but..."
"But what?"
"The pterosaur whose whole body was lit up last night changed its movements. It is very likely that it came back to life after we left last night." Ji Chaoyang said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Xu Xin's eyes twitched.
He was not afraid of any of the other stone statues except the pterosaur statue. Why did the pterosaur statue move last night
"Anyway, let's go up and take a look. I'll get ready and come to find you right away." Ji Chaoyang said.
"good."
Hang up the voice and continue carving the statue in your hand.
Eighteen small green-level statues were placed in front of him.
He traded eight to Li Wenxi and ten to Qi Xuefei on the spot.
He had already carved two for Li Wenxi before, so only eight were needed to reach the upper limit.
Within two seconds, Li Wenxi sent a video request.
In the video, she was in a parasitic tree house. There were two other people sitting in the tree house, a man and a woman. He didn't know them. They should be the people Lou Feier brought last night.
"Why did you suddenly give me so many small statues?" Li Wenxi was a little surprised. "8 statues means 80 decoration levels, that's a lot!"
"I carved some at home. I'm carving very quickly now, but the maximum I can make is ten. If there are more, I won't decorate them..."
Xu Xin saw that behind her, the two people instantly showed expressions of admiration after hearing her call him Xu Xin. The fanatical eyes made him almost think that he had joined some cult.
"It's already a lot. My chances of smelting purple-level materials will increase a bit. Look, our new members!" Li Wenxi, who was wearing casual clothes at this time, pointed the camera at a man and a woman in the tree house.
"Hello." Xu Xin nodded with a smile.
"Hello, Mr. Xu!"
"Hello, Brother Xin!"
Although the two of them looked admiring, they behaved very reservedly. It seemed that his name had become a synonym for super power in the eyes of others.
"Are you going out today?" Li Wenxi retracted the camera.
"Well, we're going to the snowy mountains soon."
"Oh well, then I won't go looking for you to play, hehe..."
"Don't always come to me, do something serious." Xu Xin was a little helpless.
"But the snow outside is three meters thick, so I can't dig any ore... Why don't I go out on my skateboard and take a look around? Maybe I can find something new."
"Okay, but be careful. I saw a furry monster this morning."
“Is it true? Are they… predators? Well, we have to be careful then.” Li Wenxi’s expression immediately turned a little more serious.
"You can go out, but you must ensure the defense of the tree house," Xu Xin reminded.
"Don't worry, the power grid has been repaired. Moreover, I have given Yajun the permission to enter and exit my tree house. If there is any situation, she can help me operate the control panel and resist the enemy."
"That's good."
After chatting for a few more words, Xu Xin hung up the video and Qi Xuefei also sent him a message to express her gratitude.
At this time, the sound of a portal was heard outside, and Ji Chaoyang was teleported in.
After all, it is much closer to the snow peak from his side.
Xu Xin stood up and prepared to go out.
"Ying!" Coco climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulder and called out, indicating that she wanted to go too.
When going out to explore, Coco is indeed a great help, especially on top of that snowy peak. If there is anything special, I'm afraid only Coco can discover it in advance.
But the environment outside was still too cold for Coco. Even if she put it in the space bracelet and took it with her, she couldn't take it out.
Xu Xin thought about it and made a snow fox scarf. He then wrapped Coco's entire little body in the furry scarf.
"Hmm?" Coco poked half of her little head out from the ball of white fur. Her equally furry brown and white ears moved twice, and her eyes were full of confusion.
"This way you won't be cold anymore. I can take you out." Xu Xin touched Coco's exposed ear and said.
Xu Xin walked into the living room again and put Mimi, Yin Wang and Ah Fu into his brand new purple-level space bracelet.
He wanted to take Coco in as well, but then something strange happened.
Coco, this weird little panda, can't be put into the bracelet!
What's going on
Looking at the little guy in front of him, half of his head sticking out from the snow fox scarf, looking at him innocently, Xu Xin pursed his lips.
This little guy is really mysterious.
There was no choice but to carry Coco down the tree house.
"You are..." Ji Chaoyang looked at Xu Xin holding Coco like a baby, and was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, "I almost thought you two even had a child."
"What..." Xu Xin said helplessly, "This little guy is special. I can only bring him over like this. I really need his perception."
"Ying!" Coco stretched out his little paws from the fur ball and made a sound.
Ji Chaoyang didn't ask any more questions: "Are you ready? Let's go."
The two of them slid on the skateboards and soon arrived below the snow peak.
Judging from the time, Lou Feier should still be climbing the part where the rock is a bit slippery and it is easy to fall.
However, Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang could not see her. After all, she could not be sensed above fifty meters.
"Come on, let's go up."
The two of them jumped into the portal one after the other.
Xu Xin once again stepped onto the top of the snowy peak.
Just as he expected, the stone statues returned to their original appearance when he reached the top yesterday.
All the stone statues, including the two closest pterosaur statues, were facing outward, making somewhat violent attacking gestures.
Demons are dancing wildly.
This group of stone statues looks like soldiers who were suddenly frozen in the middle of a war. Their ferocious movements and hideous expressions can scare away even the timid.
“嘤…!” Coco shrank his little head in the snow fox scarf. He was a little scared, but still looked around curiously.
"Is this... the scene during the day that you mentioned?" Ji Chaoyang frowned.
Although Xu Xin had explained it to him long ago, this scene still shocked him.
Xu Xin looked up at the two pterosaur statues beside him.
Last night, the statue covered with blood-red patterns had returned to normal. It was spreading its ten-meter wingspan, raising its huge head, and opening its huge mouth, as if it was roaring to the sky!
The two looked at each other and began to move among the stone statues.
"Since the forms are different during the day and at night, then the time when these stone statues are active..." Ji Chaoyang looked at the stone statues around him and thought.
"When the sun rises or sets. Early morning or evening." Xu Xin said, and reached out to gently touch the stone statue of a mutant bear.
The stone statue is exactly the same as yesterday, containing a strange vitality.
"Hmm?" Coco in my arms suddenly cried out in confusion.
Xu Xin's heart moved.
Did Coco discover anything
It stuck half of its body out of the snow fox scarf and tried to jump out of Xu Xin's arms, but because the environment was too cold, it cried "嘤" again and shrank back into the snow fox scarf, with its exposed eyes rolling around.
"Coco, have you found anything?" Xu Xin asked softly.
It stretched out its little paw, pushed Xu Xin, pointed in a direction and chirped.
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang began to move in the direction it pointed.
The two continued to walk outside, getting farther and farther away from the portal and closer and closer to the edge of the cliff.
"Bing!" Coco cried out when she was about 20 meters away from the edge of the cliff. She seemed a little dissatisfied with the speed of Xu Xin and the others. She quickly got out of the snow fox scarf, stepped on the ground, and then ran forward five or six meters, jumping twice at one position, "Bing!"
The two of them ran over immediately.
Keke couldn't stand the low temperature any longer, and immediately crawled along Xu Xin's legs into his arms, quickly got into the snow fox scarf, and then cried out in a muffled voice: "Sneeze!"
Even sneezed a little.
Xu Xin rubbed Coco's little head, then squatted down and reached out to touch the place where it jumped.
Their current position is in the middle of the first circle of ordinary beast stone statues and the second circle of low-level mutated creature stone statues.
Under my feet was a cold and hard layer of soil. There were no plants growing on it, and there was no difference between it and the surrounding soil.
"Can we trust this little guy's feelings?" Ji Chaoyang asked.
"Bah!" Coco cried out somewhat dissatisfiedly.
"Sure. Coco helped me a lot. Even the method to obtain the core of the tree house was discovered by it." Xu Xin nodded.
"Then... let's dig this up. Maybe there's something under the soil." Ji Chaoyang took out his shovel.
"Just dig it up... it shouldn't disturb the surrounding stone statues, right?"
The movements of those stone statues seemed as if they would attack him in the next second.
"Not sure, it's unlikely." Ji Chao shook his head. "Even if they alert us, at least we two can leave. It's not good to be too cautious."
"That's true." Xu Xin nodded and took out a shovel.
The first time they swung the shovel, they noticed the difference in the snowy mountain.
In their hands, they all held high-grade shovels. With one shovel, they would normally shovel out a unit of soil. But on this snowy mountain...
They could only dig the hard, dry ground in front of them, one shovel at a time, just like digging with an ordinary shovel on Earth.
Fortunately, advanced tools are still useful. Even if you can't shovel out a large amount of soil with one shovel, you can easily shovel this rock-hard soil.
Xu Xin reached out and pinched a handful of the soil, which was brown with a hint of red.
Contaminated mountain soil (gray): The soil on the mountains is polluted and cannot grow any vegetation, making it useless to survivors.
"It's contaminated soil." Xu Xin sprinkled the soil in his hand.
Ji Chaoyang nodded: "It makes sense. This giant peak must be related to the mutant creatures."
The two continued to dig. Coco was held by Xu Xin with one hand, with only her eyes exposed as she looked at the soil layer that had been dug 20 to 30 centimeters deep.
“clang!”
Ji Chaoyang's shovel dug up something, and there was a sound of metal colliding with metal.
Both of them were cheered up.
There really is something!
Something made of metal!
Treasure chest
The two men sped up the digging.
Soon, the appearance beneath the soil appeared in front of Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang.
"This is… "
The expressions of both of them changed and became a little strange.
It was a square iron door covered with rust.
There is a rusty handle on the iron door, which can be used to pull the door open directly.
The two looked at each other, and could see the solemnity in each other's eyes.
They were very familiar with the style of this iron gate.
Isn't the entrance to the underground world an iron gate like this? !
They actually dug an entrance to the underground world on top of the snowy peak? !